To the Roots – Lewis & Clark Podcast

To the Roots

A podcast exploring the history and historiography of the world that Lewis and Clark set off into in the early nineteenth-century. gototheroots.substack.com

  1. 09/02/2024

    #34 – 'nothing is extraordinary in these days of revolution, of reform': 1801 [MM4.13]

    Lewis arrives in the new Federal District to find Jefferson’s already left. However, the two eventually settle into this first year – and receive a visit from an old friend. / 38° 53′ 52″ N, 77° 2′ 10″ W / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / follow us everywhere: linktree / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | youtube | tiktok / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro by aldous ichnite — “You'll Have a Plan Before You Try to Get Your Horse on the Trailer” and “Our Entire Bodies Have Always Been the Most Powerful Form of Visual Expression” / additional music by kit wheston, godmode, and me! Get full access to To the Roots – Lewis & Clark at gototheroots.substack.com/subscribe

    17 min

  2. 08/12/2024

    #33 – 'a very unfinished situation': Clark, 97-02 [MM4.12]

    After William left the military, he tended to his family — namely, his older brother, George Rogers’, dire financial straits. In addition to addressing lawsuits from Humphrey Marshall, Captain William Shannon and Laurent Bazadone, William travels to St. Louis for the first time (as well as tease his 1798 trip to New Orleans, which will feature heavily in a future Mile Marker). / 37° 58.752′ N, 90° 2.81′ W. / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / follow us everywhere: linktree / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | youtube | tiktok / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro by aldous ichnite — “You'll Have a Plan Before You Try to Get Your Horse on the Trailer” and “Our Entire Bodies Have Always Been the Most Powerful Form of Visual Expression” / additional music by komiku | telecasted | godmode | me! Get full access to To the Roots – Lewis & Clark at gototheroots.substack.com/subscribe

    14 min

  3. 07/22/2024

    #32 – ‘a select corps of incomparable rascals’: Lewis, ‘96-01 [MM4.11]

    This episode follows Meriwether Lewis from William’s retirement after the council at Greenville to his receiving an invitation from President Jefferson to be his personal secretary. There’s a sketch of Lewis’s rather extensive travels, along with my trying to pin down more details on Lewis’s involvement near the end of 1797 at Chickasaw Bluffs. / 42° 19.647′ N, 83° 2.875′ W. / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / follow us everywhere: linktree / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | youtube | tiktok / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro by aldous ichnite — “You'll Have a Plan Before You Try to Get Your Horse on the Trailer” and “Our Entire Bodies Have Always Been the Most Powerful Form of Visual Expression” / additional music by telecasted | godmode | me! Get full access to To the Roots – Lewis & Clark at gototheroots.substack.com/subscribe

    17 min

  4. 07/08/2024

    #31 - Fort Greenville, ‘95-96 [MM4.10]

    / 40° 6′ 18″ N, 84° 37′ 56″ W / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / follow us everywhere: linktree / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | youtube | tiktok / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro by aldous ichnite — “You'll Have a Plan Before You Try to Get Your Horse on the Trailer” and “Our Entire Bodies Have Always Been the Most Powerful Form of Visual Expression” / additional music by telecasted | godmode | me! Get full access to To the Roots – Lewis & Clark at gototheroots.substack.com/subscribe

    21 min

  5. 07/01/2024

    #30 – ‘brave as Caesar’: Clark to Greenville [MM4.9]

    As James O’Fallon noted to Jonathan Clark: “Yr. Brother, William is gone out, as a cadet, with Genl. Scott, on the Expedition. He is a youth of solid & promising parts, and as brave as Caesar.” This entry follows William from 1791 to the Battle of Fallen Timbers and the march back to Fort Greenville. / 41° 5′ 0″ N, 85° 7′ 32″ W / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / follow us everywhere: linktree / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | youtube | tiktok / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro by aldous ichnite — “You'll Have a Plan Before You Try to Get Your Horse on the Trailer” and “Our Entire Bodies Have Always Been the Most Powerful Form of Visual Expression” / additional music by godmode | letter box | quincas moreira | me! Get full access to To the Roots – Lewis & Clark at gototheroots.substack.com/subscribe

    23 min

  6. 06/15/2024

    #29 - ‘Quixotic disposition’ - Lewis to Greenville [MM4.8]

    “his talent for observation, which had led him to an accurate knoledge of the plants & animals of his own country, would have distinguished him as a farmer,” Jefferson eulogized after Meriwether’s death, “but at the age of twenty, yielding to the ardor of youth, & a passion for more dazzling pursuits, he engaged as a volunteer in the body of militia which were called out by Genl Washington on occasion of the discontents produced by the Excise-taxes in the Western parts of the United States; and from that situation he was removed to the regular service as a lieutenant in the line.” / 40° 19′ 12″ N, 80° 0′ 23″ W / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / follow us everywhere: linktree / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | youtube | tiktok / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro by aldous ichnite — “You'll Have a Plan Before You Try to Get Your Horse on the Trailer” / additional music by godmode | telecasted | me! Get full access to To the Roots – Lewis & Clark at gototheroots.substack.com/subscribe

    20 min

  7. 06/08/2024

    #28 – 'The general idea is that the army is the school of debauchery’ [MM4.7]

    Lewis wrote, “The general idea is that the army is the school of debauchery but believe me it has ever proven the school of experience and prudence to your affectionate son.” But setbacks in the west, Congressional hearings would be be heard and organizations would be reorganized. Conventions would be convened and proclamations proclaimed. In the interim, between the pivotal year of 1794, Clark joins the army as a continuation of a world knew while Lewis gave up the day-to-day responsibilities at home to for a chance at study at the school of experience. / 40° 24′ 47″ N, 84° 46′ 32″ W / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / follow us everywhere: linktree / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | youtube | tiktok / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro by aldous ichnite — “You'll Have a Plan Before You Try to Get Your Horse on the Trailer” and “Our Entire Bodies Have Always Been the Most Powerful Form of Visual Expression” / additional music by godmode | letter box | telecasted Get full access to To the Roots – Lewis & Clark at gototheroots.substack.com/subscribe

    15 min

  8. 06/01/2024

    #27 - Formal and Informal Educations [MM4.6]

    While it would be easy (and materially correct) to say William (and his siblings) didn’t have the “formal” education of Jonathan or George Rogers, i.e. there was no Donald Robertson in an outpost like Louisville where teachers like him and learning materials — the philosophies, the classical histories, the scientific textbooks, the essays, as well good paper and pencils — were quite limited, the Clark household was still a place of learning, “formal” and “frontier.” The reason the Clark’s eschewed “formal” education stems (at least a bit) on the economic reality of sending all their children away (as they did with Jonathan and George Rogers). With less children and in a less remote location, Lewis would obtain, like Jonathan and George Rogers, the more formal, broad Enlightenment, education through out a series of teachers, “impoverished divines,” in David Lavender’s words. / 38° 12′ 59″ N, 85° 43′ 42″ W / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / follow us everywhere: linktree / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | youtube | tiktok / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro by aldous ichnite — “You'll Have a Plan Before You Try to Get Your Horse on the Trailer” and “Our Entire Bodies Have Always Been the Most Powerful Form of Visual Expression” / additional music by godmode and me! Get full access to To the Roots – Lewis & Clark at gototheroots.substack.com/subscribe

    20 min
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